Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor; A Great President in a Time of Crisis
New York, N.Y. The Macmillan Company, 1970. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vii, [2], 356, [2] pages. DJ has small chips to top and bottom edges. Includes Preface, Afterword, Acknowledgments, Sources, and Notes, and Index. Some pencil underlining and notes to text. This book is the story of a President's fight for preparedness. It is also the story of a man who had promised again and again that American boys would not be sent to foreign wars, but who said as he observed a world in which liberty was fast disappearing: "We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.'' Leonard S. Baker (January 24, 1931 – November 23, 1984) was an American writer. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, a book about Leo Baeck. His other published works include The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency, Back to Back: The Duel Between FDR and the Supreme Court, John Marshall: A Life in Law, Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography, Brahmin in Revolt, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor, and The Guaranteed Society. A 1952 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Arts and Sciences, Baker was a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 1955 to 1956 and for Newsday from 1956 to 1965. More